Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Carol Rifka Brunt

Set in 1980s New York, this literary debut follows fourteen-year-old June Elbus as she grieves the death of her beloved uncle Finn, an artist who died of AIDS. After Finn's death, June forms an unlikely friendship with Toby, Finn's partner whom her family has shunned, and through him she discovers new sides of the uncle she thought she knew. The novel quietly explores family secrets, sisterly rivalry, and the particular loneliness of being a misunderstood teenager in the shadow of the AIDS crisis.